The beautiful, dumb dream of McDonald’s peace theory

“No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” In the rich, lazy, and happy 1990s, Americans imagined a world that could be just like them, and in this fascinating piece for Foreign Policy, political commentator Paul Musgrave delves into Thomas Friedman's "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention”, a correlation between declining wars and "the expansion of global capitalism."